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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain

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His losses were reported as very heavy.
See Jackson's, Hill's, and Archer's official reports; volss from our fire was only fifteen in all. See Jackson's Official Report. But the Twenty-seventh Indis staff, that a battle between our corps and Jackson's army was impending, or in progress.
Until t the valley through which they must pass,
Jackson's Report. they now advanced upon the right, t not probable that Banks would have assaulted Jackson's army at all, at least not single-handed andduced Jackson to think it prudent to halt.
Jackson's Report.
It was not until morning that Je.
Dabney's Life of Jackson. Arguments for Jackson's prowess based upon such figures are groundeisson, with two other caissons and a limber.
Jackson's Report.
Jackson thought, says Dabney, d that Cedar Mountain should be emblazoned on Jackson's shield.
But the mills of Time at last grinhis whole force would have been saved to meet Jackson's attack, if he had made one; and had it been[8 more...]

ll whether it was to the right or left of a plumbline through his belly.
Stop him!
Stop that damned ass!
with expletives stronger than refined, greeted this ambitious artillerist, who seemed bent, like the Irishman at Donnybrook Fair, to hit the first head he saw; and he was stopped by one of Pope's staff-officers before he had destroyed the commanding general of the Army of Virginia.
Hardly had the enemy opened with his artillery, when a battery of Ricketts' division
Thompson's Pennsylvania (C) independent. sent its compliments in such furious earnest and with such accurate aim that the enemy retreated with a loss of nearly all his horses and many of his men. We found them where they fell when Jackson retreated.
While batteries were still passing farther to the rear, accompanied by straggling regiments of infantry and cavalry, I discovered General Williams, commanding our division, by my side.
I asked him whether, in view of the probable formation of a new line of battle

rty-five per cent of the regiment as engaged were killed or wounded.
See Record of the Second Massachusetts infantry, by A. H. Quint, pp.110, 111. Surrounded by many of their men killed in the action, I saw dead upon the field Captains Cary, Goodwin, Abbott, Williams, and Lieutenant Perkins. Major Savage had been removed, to die at Charlottesville.
Never in the entire history of the Second Massachusetts Regiment had its percentage of loss been so great.
Not at Winchester, Antietam, Chancellorsville; not at Gettysburg, Resaca, the Atlanta campaign, or in the march to the sea,--was the sacrifice so large.
In my whole brigade the loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners was four hundred and sixty-six,--over thirty in every hundred of my command.
Jackson had won a complete victory.
How, indeed, could it be otherwise?
Place the figures of the force I have given for Banks's corps against the twelve brigades of Jackson's three divisions, against the 25,000 men of all arms which met

t as engaged were killed or wounded.
See Record of the Second Massachusetts infantry, by A. H. Quint, pp.110, 111. Surrounded by many of their men killed in the action, I saw dead upon the field Captains Cary, Goodwin, Abbott, Williams, and Lieutenant Perkins. Major Savage had been removed, to die at Charlottesville.
Never in the entire history of the Second Massachusetts Regiment had its percentage of loss been so great.
Not at Winchester, Antietam, Chancellorsville; not at Gettysburg, Resaca, the Atlanta campaign, or in the march to the sea,--was the sacrifice so large.
In my whole brigade the loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners was four hundred and sixty-six,--over thirty in every hundred of my command.
Jackson had won a complete victory.
How, indeed, could it be otherwise?
Place the figures of the force I have given for Banks's corps against the twelve brigades of Jackson's three divisions, against the 25,000 men of all arms which met the charge of our 7,500 men,

ere not engaged at all.--into the fight at Cedar Mountain, one half of them awaited our attack on thirginia upon the disastrous battlefield of Cedar Mountain.
He had come, when disaster could not be proportions the huge blunders committed at Cedar Mountain.
For instance: while the enemy's fire waswoods or though them, or somewhere towards Cedar Mountain, there had been heard at intervals a droppn a very different history of the fight of Cedar Mountain It is not probable that Banks would have arces at my disposal.
Pope to Halleck from Cedar Mountain, Aug. 11, 1862, 7.50 a.m. Same to same, Aug. 13, 1862, 5 p.m. from Cedar Mountain. See Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, series i., of the 9th Jackson had withdrawn towards Cedar Mountain.
The 10th passed; our dead were unburied,unded on the field and along the road from Cedar Mountain to Orange Court House.
When Jackson went l attacks made upon it, even though, as at Cedar Mountain, it was overwhelmed on its front, flank, a[4 more...]

themselves in this regiment.
We are firing upon our own men!
cried those who saw in the wooded thicket at the end of the wheat-field large bodies 6f troops endeavoring to approach, under cover, nearer to our flank.
We are firing upon our own men!
shouted Colonel Colgrove to me, as he pointed to what seemed to him to be the blue uniforms of our troops in the dense brushwood on our right.
We have no men there, I replied, the enemy is there.
Order your men to open fire upon him.
The Indiana regiment had almost ceased firing, the Colonel giving this as an excuse. The Colonel still hesitated.
To convince him of his error I rode forward to the right of his regiment, up to the fence that skirted the brushwood, and was received with a fire that settled the matter at once.
I saw you on the right of my regiment ride forward to the fence, and immediately a very heavy fire was opened upon that part of the line by the enemy, upon you. I cannot conceive how you possibly escaped it with

rd, and soon came where he and Pope were standing together in the road nearly two miles in rear of the wheat-field, and about one mile on the Culpeper side from Cedar Creek.
General Pope had at last arrived on the field, and the following will explain how he happened there:
The boom of artillery that echoed back to Culpeper d, in moving with my staff to select our position, I perceived that our cavalry, which previously had been in line between the woods I was ordered to occupy and Cedar Creek, had now passed through the woods, and were in line behind it on the Culpeper side, having fallen back before the approach of the enemy.
As my orders from Popef the battle; or if it had, to swing his whole line backward on my position as on a pivot, and cover his left by the woods on the ridge, on the northern side of Cedar Creek (where Crawford was the evening before, when we were sent out to establish ourselves at Crawford's position), would have been Banks's true movement to repel suc

on for delay was that King might come up with the other division of McDowell's corps.
King arrived on the evening of the 11th, and Pope made up his mind, though his force barely equalled Jackson's, to fall upon the enemy on the 12th.
Pope's Official Report. Many such resolutions have been frustrated by the enemy not waiting to be fallen upon.
So Jackson.
He fled on the evening of the 11th, leaving many of his dead and wounded on the field and along the road from Cedar Mountain to Orange Court House.
When Jackson went tumbling across the Rapidan, under cover of night, abandoning many wounded and stragglers by the way, and barely saving his baggage; calling for reinforcements, and thanking the Lord for the victory in the same breath,--we are at a loss to imagine the grounds for his pious gratitude.
Strother's Recollections of a Virginia Campaign.
On the morning of that day Pope sent, by flag of truce, for permission to recover the wounded and bury the dead.
This was granted

most within reach of his guns, himself unwounded, placed his own body and his own frail life between his friend and the enemy.
Major Savage and Captain Henry S. Russell were captured together; the former, lingering for a few weeks, died at Charlottesville, but the latter I rejoice to number as among the survivors of the officers of the Second.
Nowhere can I find more fitting words to apply to this knightly act than those used by the aged father of Major Savage, under date of August 20, 186d Massachusetts infantry, by A. H. Quint, pp.110, 111. Surrounded by many of their men killed in the action, I saw dead upon the field Captains Cary, Goodwin, Abbott, Williams, and Lieutenant Perkins. Major Savage had been removed, to die at Charlottesville.
Never in the entire history of the Second Massachusetts Regiment had its percentage of loss been so great.
Not at Winchester, Antietam, Chancellorsville; not at Gettysburg, Resaca, the Atlanta campaign, or in the march to the sea,--was

l, with his staff, entered it to report to him. The troops of his command, said to be much jaded by the heat and fatigue, were not yet in town.
It will be remembered that on the 8th Siegel received orders from Pope to march immediately from Sperryville to Culpeper, a distance of about twenty miles. Instead of obeying these orders, he sent a note (which the latter received after night on the 8th), dated at Sperryville at 6.30 P. M., asking by what road he should march to Culpeper Court House.Sperryville at 6.30 P. M., asking by what road he should march to Culpeper Court House.
This delay of Siegel's detained him until too late for the action,--delayed him, as Pope says,
Pope's Official Report by the singular uncertainty of what road he ought to pursue.
Nor was this all. At this vital hour, at four o'clock in the afternoon of the ninth of August, Siegel's corps had not yet arrived at Culpeper, and, worse than that, when it did arrive, the men were hungry as well as jaded, for they were without rations.
I had given notice, says Pope, that the whole army of Virgi